Recommended Prerequisites: Performing ability on an instrument or vocal music reading ability. Students become familiar with musical terminology, learn how to write musical manuscript, listen to and construct diatonic intervals, listen to and construct all of the major and relative minor scale forms, and listen to and construct the primary and secondary triads. Aural skills will be developed by singing with syllables and the use of rhythmic and melodic dictation. Part writing will be introduced and applied in writing exercises.